Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 04a824949e52280e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.5 KB Created: 2021-03-15 00:30:11 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 8acc612cad686f491e7f057e6b3ee9a4 SHA-1: 576cbcbe4df57c28ad2d579d7e287df851a219d0 SHA-256: 04a824949e52280e0b7a7fa2477a71053a9f9a692345feee33d9acaeca591091
174 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. It contains an image-based interface with a clickable link, likely intended to redirect the user to a malicious website for credential harvesting or malware download. The presence of numerous external PDF links, some pointing to potentially malicious domains, further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.6529

Heuristics 5

  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 54 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
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